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"The unattainable quest for middle-class stability is hauntingly captured in this biting portrayal of forgotten America Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich, JR Helton brings to life an obscured underside of the American psyche in this unflinching account of life inside the working class of Texas in the 1980s. We first meet Helton as a struggling writer succumbing to the bleak reality of what it means to support himself and a troubled wife. That despair is transformed into resilience as Helton insightfully narrates his wayward years, enduring hateful employers and mind-numbing manual labor. Along the way, he introduces us to the real people toiling beneath the saccharine veneer of wealth that was the Reagan years: the ambitious and the lazy, the potheads and racists, as well as Vietnam vets too shaken to hold a paint brush, dead-beat fathers straining to pay child support, and the casual murderer. Raw and moving, Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions captures a microcosm of tattered America that straddles that dangerous line between ruin and redemption"--Provided by publisher.
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Social life and customs, Man-woman relationships, Working class men, Social conditions, Working class, Biography, Working class, united states, Texas, biography, United states, social conditions, Texas, social life and customs, Manners and customs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic DisparityPeople
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Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions: Dispatches from the Working Class
2018, Liveright Publishing Corporation
in English
1631492888 9781631492884
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Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions: Dispatches from the Working Class
Jan 02, 2018, HighBridge Audio
audio cd
1681689820 9781681689821
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Bad jobs and poor decisions: dispatches from the working class : a memoir
2018
in English
- First edition.
163149287X 9781631492877
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